During the 13th five-year Plan, it is necessary to develop green circular economy into green urbanization.

In his speech at the closing ceremony of the Sino-French Forum on Climate and Green economy, Premier Li Keqiang said that taking the road of green development is an inevitable requirement for changing the mode of development and readjusting the economic structure. In accordance with the arrangements of the just-concluded Fifth Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, including following the concept of green development, China will continue to broaden the win-win road of economic growth and environmental improvement by changing the mode of development, readjusting the structure, and promoting economic quality and efficiency. Open up a new situation in the construction of ecological civilization.

In the "proposal of the CPC Central Committee on the formulation of the Thirteenth five-year Plan for National Economic and Social Development", "green development" has been emphasized many times, and the concept of "green development" runs through all the relevant expressions about urbanization.

Zhang Yong, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out at the "2015 China Circular economy Development Forum" that it is necessary to focus on the carrying capacity of resources and environment as a prerequisite, unswervingly implement the main strategy in spatial layout, and improve the planning system. scientific and rational distribution and renovation of production space, living space, and ecological space. Concentrate on the regions with comparative advantages and realize the differential market access policy for different projects.

"in the process of urbanization, it is necessary to build a reasonable macro-layout of urbanization, promote the transformation of urbanization development from extension expansion to connotation promotion, build a green ecological city, and speed up the construction of beautiful villages in the construction of new rural areas. so that the construction of ecological civilization extends to rural areas and benefits the broad masses of the people." Zhang Yong pointed out, "Greening essentially requires improving the degree of greening, such as layout, mode of production, way of life, values and so on."

Industry experts told China Business Daily that under the situation that environmental protection has been attached great importance to, the development of circular economy has become the only way for a new type of urbanization.

The new type of urbanization highlights "green"

At the just-concluded Fifth Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, with the proposal for the formulation of the 13th five-year Plan as the main agenda, the construction of ecological civilization was written into the task goal of the five-year Plan for the first time. Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that the development of green, low-carbon and circular economy should be regarded as an important part of the construction of ecological civilization.

Behind the large-scale and high-speed urbanization, China's urban and rural development has encountered increasingly severe resource and environmental constraints.

The 13th five-year Plan proposal puts forward a number of key requirements for urbanization, which are more specific and more focused on implementation compared with the 12th five-year Plan.

For example, it is proposed to adjust the city scale according to the carrying capacity of resources and environment, optimize the urban form and function by relying on landscapes, improve the level of building a new socialist countryside, carry out actions to renovate rural human settlements, and promote the coordinated development of regions. increase support for difficult areas such as resource depletion and serious ecological degradation, and so on. Under the guidance of these ideas, China's urbanization will accelerate the pace of transformation to "green" during the 13th five-year Plan period.

In March 2014, the state promulgated the "National New urbanization Plan". The 13th five-year Plan is the five years since the national new urbanization plan has been fully implemented.

Feng Kui, secretary general of the academic Committee of the China Center for Urban and small Town Reform and Development, pointed out that in the past, apart from insufficient innovation, there were outstanding problems in urbanization, such as insufficient coordination, insufficient green, insufficient openness, and insufficient sharing. In addition to innovative development, it is highly targeted for urbanization to advocate coordinated development, green development, open development and shared development.

When it comes to green urbanization, Feng Kui believes that green is not enough, it is intuitively that the living environment has been destroyed. He also pointed out the backwardness of various ecological, energy-saving, environment-friendly and efficient industries in urban and rural areas, high energy consumption in buildings and high emissions from vehicles.

Experts said that during the 13th five-year Plan period, green development has become the main tone, and green urbanization will enter the real landing stage.

The development of circular economy becomes the focus

Industry experts pointed out that environmental protection has been paid more and more attention, and the development of circular economy, as a major national development strategy, has become the only way for a new type of urbanization.

At the 2015 China Circular economy Development Forum held on October 31, Zhao Jiarong, president of the China Circular economy Association, said that this year marks the end of the 12th five-year Plan. China has promoted the development of circular economy at the national level. After two development periods, the Eleventh five-year Plan and the Twelfth five-year Plan, the development of circular economy has achieved remarkable results under the strong promotion of relevant departments, local governments and all sectors of society. It has played an important role in adjusting industrial structure, changing the mode of development, building ecological civilization and promoting sustainable development.

"all mankind is exploring how the economy and society should develop and how to coordinate economic growth with resources and environment." Yang Chunping, director of the Circular economy Research Office of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that in the process of exploration, the ring economy is the earliest, the most mature, and the most operational development model and growth mode. Yang Chunping pointed out that the development of circular economy is to solve the contradiction between economic development and resources and environment, and to meet the requirements of resource constraints and environmental quality improvement.

He Bingguang, director of the Environmental Resources Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that under the green background during the 13th five-year Plan period, the development of circular economy should be promoted from six aspects: green thinking, green orientation, green layout, green production, green life, and green sharing.

"in the scientific and technological innovation of the circular economy during the 13th five-year Plan, we should determine the direction of technological development according to the requirements of different fields of industry, agriculture, and cities and towns, according to the train of thought of life cycle management, and in view of the outstanding problems faced in the course of development." Qian Yi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Tsinghua University, pointed out that in order to study the reduction of domestic waste in cities, urban wastewater should be transformed into resources and energy, and the service industry should also be green. In rural areas, there are a series of problems in agricultural development, such as non-point source pollution, over-exploitation of groundwater, rural garbage and so on. special attention should be paid to the circular scientific and technological innovation in agriculture and rural areas. at the same time, these aspects of scientific and technological innovation should have rural characteristics, can not completely copy the urban model.

Yin Ruiyu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former vice minister of the Ministry of Metallurgy, pointed out that the development of circular economy should adhere to the principle of "3R" and optimize and integrate the five elements of material, energy, time, space and capital. Take industrial ecological park, "urban mineral resources", industrial transformation and upgrading, garbage resource treatment, industrial waste heat and so on as the starting point to land the circular economy.

Zhu Dajian, member of the Global Council of Circular economy of the World Economic Forum and director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Management of Tongji University, suggested that from paying attention to "resource productivity" to "equal emphasis on resource productivity and controlling the total amount of garbage production", realize the development of circular economy from "waste cycle" to "product cycle" and then to "service cycle".

At present, various localities are accelerating the development of circular economy.

Recently, the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, together with the Beijing Municipal Bureau of quality Supervision and other departments, formulated the "Beijing implementation Plan for promoting Energy Saving, low carbon and Circular economy Standardization (2015-2022)", which has been officially issued by the Office of the Beijing Municipal Government. According to Zhang Guohong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, in recent years, Beijing's current standards in the field of energy conservation, low carbon and circular economy have reached 207, 142 are under study and 94 are being revised.